Blog: Spiritual Disciplines
Spiritual Formation: Self-Help or Discipleship?
Is spiritual formation just code for Christianized self-help? Spiritual formation is the process of learning how to surrender our internal and external lives to the purposes of God’s Kingdom, becoming people of love for the sake of others.
What Is a Silent Retreat?
Our bodies fight and fight to keep up until an injury or sickness finally forces us to rest. On the one hand, this is a good argument for the weekly rhythm of sabbath. On the other hand, we may need a harder reset to heal us before Sabbath can sustain us.
Intentional Reset
When you embrace the type of life that flourishes within our good, God-given human limitations, you’ll wonder how you ever survived in the treadmill of our culture’s rhythms.
Prayer of the Hours... with a Twist
Prayer of the Hours is a monastic discipline that helps fight against both internal and external factors that keep us feeling a secular-sacred divide in life. And by theming it, I’m reminded that God really does care about the things I care about, making my relationship with Him feel both more intimate and more relevant to my whole life.
Hospitality without a Home
Hospitality is evidently about more than having friends over for dinner. It’s about making people feel at home as we act as the hands, feet, and mouthpiece of God.